Description:
By the last quarter of the 19th century, the few redware potteries in business had focused their attention on flowerpots needed by farmers, florists, and householders. Wheel-thrown at first, and then more often cast in molds, these pots often with attached saucers, were primarily utilitarian, plain, and glazed only on the exterior. This example is unmarked. Large thrown redware flower pot with attached saucer, flower pot has rounded rim that flares outward slightly and a cylindrical shape that tapers at the base, the saucer is circular with steep sides, the exterior of the pot and a small amount of the interior rim is covered with a lustrous green-colored glaze, the glaze varies to a speckled brownish-green glaze in certain areas, a small hole is pierced in the side of the pot for drainage of water, there is an incised line just under the rim of the flower pot, Condition: There are losses of glaze from the rim, and a significant hairline crack extending from the rim to the center of the flower pot body; Current attribution provided by American ceramics scholar Justin Thomas, 1/16/2019. At Old Sturbridge Village, the museum owns a similarly shaped and glazed flower pot that is stamped "Dodge Portland Me." and "7" on the bottom of the pot for Benjamin Dodge, Jr. (1802-1875)
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